[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6933: Allow wp-config.php to exist one level up from WordPress root directory

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#6933: Allow wp-config.php to exist one level up from WordPress root directory
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 Reporter:  sambauers    |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  reopened 
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  General      |      Version:  2.5.1    
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch    |  
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Comment (by sambauers):

 The ABSPATH define in wp-load.php comes before the define in wp-config.php
 so wrapping it in a conditional won't help.

 The reason ABSPATH and the include are still at the bottom of conifg.php
 is to allow backwards compatibility for plugins that might directly
 include wp-config.php and expect that definition and the loading of
 WordPress would occur. I think it should be in wp-load.php exclusively
 too. Subsequent plugin breakage could possibly be assessed, but not known
 for sure. None of this would help with the problem of old configs needing
 to be edited like in your situation. They would just have to be edited
 differently instead.

 I agree it isn't nice breaking things for people on SVN up, but the
 audience using SVN aren't generally the audience who couldn't troubleshoot
 that error.

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